congrats! i got one, too! i was so excited i started to hyperventelate. my mom gave it to me & said she'd never thought i'd get that excited over a kitchen appliance. they're the best thing ever. happy holidays!

I had no idea you were - just like me - cooking without a kitchen aid! Anyway, you deserve this!! Your boyfriend deserves credit too, but not AS much because he knows he will taste even more goodies in the future now ;)

Way to go! And in red, too. That's the color I wanted when I got mine years ago. But alas, they were out. So I ended up with cobalt blue. May it bring you many years of baking fun, just as mine has. ;)

Life's grand with a big, new, fire-engine red Kitchen Aid mixer! I have one just like yours and the day I got it I felt like I'd just received a race car--couldn't stop staring at it and touching it, etc! :)

I totally know how you feel! I've got the same in RED for my birthday last august from my children. I guess they wanted me to shut up talking about KA mixer all the time! And even if I always dreamed of one in banana yellow, I love, love my red mixer - that's the right color for a passionate baker, isn't it?!